Sunday, August 17, 2008

In the afternoon, four players (Christie Rampone, Kate Markgraf, Heather O'Reilly and Amy Rodriguez) and head coach Pia Sundhage took a short trip from the Olympic Village to the massive Main Press Center for a fairly well-attended press conference (hey, we're not Michael Phelps, but there was a pretty good turnout), where they talked about the Olympic tournament so far, facing Japan in the semifinal and overcoming the interesting adversity the team has faced the past few weeks. After the PC, Christie Rampone and Kate Markgraf sat down with none other than former U.S. captain Julie Foudy to tape a few quotes for NBC to be used during the broadcast of the Japan game. We must say that Foudy still looks like she could lace up the boots and play in the semi (except of course for the belly, as she is five months pregnant with her second child).

About U.S. Soccer

As the governing body of soccer in all its forms in the United States, U.S. Soccer has helped chart the course for the sport in the USA for more than 90 years. In this time, the Federation’s mission statement has been very simple and very clear: to make soccer, in all its forms, a preeminent sport in the United States and to continue the development of soccer at all recreational and competitive levels.